Roland Freisler and Nazi Sham Trials

Nazi Germany - 1944 - Judge Roland Freisler and his sham trials condemning those accused of plotting to assassinate Adolph Hitler. Clip from the :The World at War" (BBC) amzn.to/UwjyN0 Many of the plotters, after prison and torture, were to face a ghastly sham trial conducted by Roland Freisler, the star judge of Nazi Germany. Their families were seized and their children sent to orphanages. The luckier conspirators, among them Stauffenberg, had been shot out of hand in the War Ministry courtyard. Some attempted to explain their motives in court. Count von Schwerin was an officer who had served in Poland. von Schwerin: "I became uneasy about our policies, uneasy about our National Socialism. I thought about the many murders." Freisler: MURDERS? YOU...MISERABLE...SCUM! The condemned were hanged, slowly, on meat hooks. A film of their agony was made and shown later to Hitler. But the plot left Hitler a frightened, damaged man. From "The World at War" (1974, BBC) amzn.to/UwjyN0

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